Contemporary smart city solutions rely on standardized von Neumann architecture, in which
single data units are coded as “0” or “1.” Conversely, urban quantum technologies rely on …

The pervasiveness of IoT and embedded devices allows the deployment of services that
were unthinkable only few years ago. Such devices are typically small, run unattended …

Abstract The Firmware Over-The-Air (FOTA) technology aims at updating the firmware of
mobile computing devices via wireless. In the automotive industry, FOTA can keep the …

As autonomous and connected vehicles continue to garner much research attention, the
automotive Over-The-Air (OTA) updates recently emerged as an important research topic …

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applies IoT technologies on industrial automation systems
with the aims of providing remote sensing, remote control, self-organization and self …

The continuous development of quantum computing necessitates the development of
quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms. In response to this demand, the National …

With the announcement of the first winners of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
competition in 2022, the industry has now a confirmed foundation to revisit established …

Threshold digital signatures enable a distributed execution of signature functionalities and
will play a crucial role in the security of emerging decentralized next-generation networked …

Although carrying substantial technological potential and managerial relevance for smart
cities of the near future, they are still rarely investigated in smart city literature and as a …

Conventional smart city technologies are based on typical von Neumann architectures in
which single units of data are coded in the form of either “0” or “1.” Novel urban quantum …